In theFlowwith Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi The Michelangelo of Trees

theFlame

The Magazine of Claremont Graduate University

Volume 1, Number 1

Fall 2000

In theFlow with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Michelangelo of Trees

Brilliant “Pot-Shots”

contents

2 the president’s notebook

4 voices

6 news from 10th and College

Features

16 From Bluebook to Ballot Box

Along the way to her Ph.D. in politics, Sylvia Scott-Hayes has gotten more

than a classroom education at CGU. She's become an elected official.

19 Malignant or Benign?

Far from just producing pages of esoteric formulas, CGU’s Research

Institute of Applied Mathematical Sciences may support a medical diagnostic

breakthrough.

20 The Michelangelo of Trees

Where others see discarded roots and tree branches, a CGU groundskeeper sees

works of art waiting to break free.

22 faculty spotlight

27 upcoming

28 alumnotes

Cover Story

12 In the Flow

What do Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Cirque du Soleil, and the Dallas

Cowboys have in common? How about an affinity for the ideas of CGU

professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi?

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Claremont Graduate University,

founded in 1925, focuses

exclusively on graduate-level

study. It is a member of The

Claremont Colleges, a consor-

tium of seven independent

institutions.

President

Steadman Upham

Provost and Dean of Faculty

Ann Weaver Hart

Vice President for Business

William L. Everhart

Claremont Graduate University

does not discriminate in its edu-

cational programs on the basis

of race, color, creed, place of

national origin, gender, sexual

orientation, age, or disability.

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president’s

notebook

Welcome to the first issue of the

Flame: the Magazine of Claremont

Graduate University. As we inaugurate

the Flame, Claremont Graduate

University begins a new era: For the

first time in its seventy-five year histo-

ry, CGU is a fully independent member

of The Claremont Colleges. At its May

meeting, the CGU Trustees voted

unanimously to separate CGU from

Claremont University Center. With this

vote, two years of intensive work spent

crafting the corporate separation

agreement came to a close. Assets and

liabilities have been divided, and today

Claremont Graduate University and

Claremont University Consortium

operate independently, where before

they were joined as Claremont

University Center and Graduate

University.

I am pleased to make this

announcement because an important

result of this action is that all seven

Claremont Colleges have a new under-

standing about academic cooperation

between graduate and undergraduate

members. Graduate education is no

longer a central service in Claremont.

Seventy-four years after the founding

of The Claremont Colleges, Claremont

Graduate University stands as an

equal partner in the consortium with

its sister colleges.

While the intensive work of the last

two years have resulted in a formal

separation agreement, the seeds were

sown seven years ago when president-

emeritus John D. Maguire introduced

the then-radical idea of separating

CGU from CUC. In addition, presi-

dent-emeritus Joseph B. Platt played

an instrumental role over the last two

years in helping to craft the final set-

tlement. We owe John and Joe many

thanks for their vision and foresight in

helping CGU to achieve full autonomy

within the Claremont consortium.

The corporate reorganization will

permit CGU to focus exclusively on its

mission of graduate education. CGU is

the largest of the Claremont Colleges,

with more than 2,000 students. It is

thus no longer appropriate for the

Graduate University to manage the

central programs and services of the

consortium. Given CGU’s size and

complexity, all efforts of the university

must be directed to improving the

teaching and learning environment,

enhancing educational services,

strengthening the academic culture,

and building scholarly excellence.

In addition to dedicated faculty

and able students, adequate financial

resources are crucial for sustaining

academic excellence in a contempo-

rary university. Consequently, the

separation of assets was of major

importance to CGU in the corporate

reorganization.The endowment of the

combined corporation at the time of

reorganization totaled slightly more

than $111 million. Of this amount,

approximately $91 million belongs to

Claremont Graduate University. CGU

will also post as endowment another

$4.6 million that was negotiated as

part of the separation agreement.

Funds raised this year by CGU will

bring the university’s total endowment

near the $100 million mark, the first

time ever that its endowment has

approached this milestone.

Endowment growth is the hallmark

of the university’s careful stewardship

of its resources. A $100 million

endowment is a testament to the gen-

erosity of CGU’s friends and the

strength of its leadership over the past

75 years. We proudly celebrate this

milestone. Consider how CGU’s $100

million endowment compares to the

endowments of other colleges and uni-

versities:

o Of the 3,706 colleges and universi-

ties in the U.S., only 368—about

10 percent—have endowments over

$50 million.

o Most public colleges and universi-

ties have no endowments or only

nominal amounts; two-thirds of pri-

vate institutions have endowments

of less than $5 million.

o The median endowment at private

colleges and universities is roughly

$10 million.

o Thirty-four colleges and universi-

ties have endowments that exceed

$1 billion and of these, 26 are

private.

In July 1998, CGU’s endowment

totaled $74 million. Our fiscal strate-

gies and development work during the

past two years have resulted in rapid

progress in reaching our goal of

endowment growth. We will not, how-

ever, rest on our past accomplish-

ments. A university of CGU’s quality

and aspirations should have an endow-

ment roughly six times its annual

operating budget, or the equivalent

today of about $200 million. We thus

have much work to do in the years

ahead.

For now, however, please join me

in saluting the many individuals over

the years who have contributed so

generously of their financial resources

to support CGU. Such enlightened

philanthropy has provided an enduring

legacy for high quality graduate

education in Claremont, a legacy that

is especially important now as we

begin a new chapter in the history of

Claremont Graduate University.

Steadman Upham

President

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Inspiration

Inspiration can be found in

many places. Some people look for

it in works of art or of science. Others

seek it in the deeds of great historical

figures. I find inspiration in the people

around me—my family, friends, fellow

students, and professors.

Like many people, my first source of

inspiration was my mother. At the age

of 30, she found herself alone with five

children to raise. She had no savings,

little income, only an elementary school

education, and she barely spoke English.

Only her will to lift herself and her family

from poverty ensured a better future for

her children.

My mother accomplished this through

education. First, she obtained her high-

school equivalency—while running her

own business and raising five kids.

She then completed a two-year

accounting program in only one year—

while working part time and, oh yes, rais-

ing five kids. Her next goal was to obtain

a Bachelor of Social Work degree while

working full-time. After the five kids went

out on their own, she graduated from

college.

I saw how my mother’s studies led to

work she enjoyed, a good salary, a firm

command of English, and the undying

respect of her five daughters. In her

mind, my mother had no choice but to

face these challenges. The only alterna-

tive was poverty. In her children’s minds,

however, she was an inspiration to follow

in overcoming any barriers to achieving

what we set our minds to do.

Students and professors at CGU also

inspired me during my two years at the

Drucker School. There were students who

traveled great distances from across the

US and around the world to study at

CGU. Some overcame economic and

social barriers to make it here, including

other people’s misconceptions about age,

culture, race, and gender. It has been

truly inspiring to study alongside so many

people who refused to allow any barrier

to keep them from achieving their

dreams.

We often bemoan the lack of heroes

and role models in today’s society, but

the truth is that we are surrounded by

them—we just need to open our eyes and

our minds to see them.

I have found that the biggest differ-

ence between those who dream to one

day do something and those who reach

their goals is that the achievers have

stopped saying, “One day I will…” and

have actually taken action to start on

their dream.

We all have the capacity to inspire oth-

ers and, in turn, to be inspired by them.

Most importantly, we also have the ability

to act upon that inspiration and make

our dreams happen.

I thank my family, friends, fellow stu-

dents, and professors for being such

important sources of inspiration to me.

I hope that, in some way, I have returned

the favor by inspiring them as well.

Doris Gallan

MBA, 2000

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voices

As part of President Upham’s

“vision of renewal,”the CGU

Graduate Student Council has been

increasingly relied upon as a source of

student opinion, activism, and vision.

Under the leadership of last year’s presi-

dent, Mandana Hashemzadah, the GSC,

with limited funding, made a concerted

effort to establish itself as an active and

collective student voice by securing gradu-

ate representation on many of the cam-

pus’ internal committees; by creating a

forum for real-time discussion of campus-

wide issues with a “Town Hall Meeting;”

by assisting in the revitalization of CGU’s

recycling program; and by serving as the

“student voice” in CGU’s recent all-univer-

sity retreat. Most important, though, was

the council’s decision and dedication to

direct support of the student body

through Individual Travel and Group

Conference/Project Awards. The council

endeavored to help as many students as it

could. This year we would like to help

more.

As this year’s president, it is my hope

that the Graduate Student Council will

maintain and improve upon its presence

within the university decision-making

process, continuing a precedent estab-

lished by last year’s success. We will refo-

cus on the student body, attempting to

establish a more cohesive network of

social and academic opportunities.

Specifically, the GSC will attempt to

resolve concerns regarding adequate stu-

dent health insurance, seek to develop

relationships with the other Claremont

Colleges on a student level, generate a

template for graduate student business

cards, revitalize the now defunct Student

Handbook, encourage mentoring relation-

ships within departments between older

and younger students, and assist

in any way possible Dr. Laurie Richlin

and the new Preparing Future Faculty

program.

The success of President Upham’s

vision of renewal will be based on the spe-

cific dedication of each separate element

of the university to that vision. Be it

board, faculty, student, or staff, each must

commit among themselves, then act. This

year the GSC will lead by example, dedi-

cating itself to meeting the student por-

tion of the call.

Graduate study is a once-in-a-lifetime

opportunity. It is a time of idealism, of

dedication and growth. The “rhetoric of

crisis” that permeates discussion about the

contemporary state of the university on a

national scale, so familiar to students in

graduate schools, has conspired to erode

the love that graduate students have when

they begin this journey. The council’s

commitment this year is to the student, it

is to this love, and it is to a “rhetoric of

opportunity” that will challenge the hope-

lessness we are often exposed to, in coop-

eration with President Upham’s vision of

“a quiet revolution,” through idealization

and action.

Michael James Mahin

GSC President 2000-01

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The Claremont Graduate University

flame comes from the seal of Claremont

University Center and Graduate School

which was founded in 1925. The Latin

words on the seal, “Multa lumina, Una

lux,” refer to the “many lamps” of The

Claremont Colleges and their collective

commitment to “one light” in the com-

mon search for wisdom and truth.

As Claremont Graduate

University enters the final quarter of its

first century, the flame is brighter than

ever and reminds us of our purpose as

an institution devoted to the highest

academic ideals. First, the flame contin-

ues to represent the light that guides

the quest for truth, understanding, and

wisdom—not simply the discovery and

dissemination of new information, but

the creation of knowledge to make the

world a better place. Second, the flame

stands for the energy that inspires our

efforts and renews our spirits as we

work together as a community to con-

tinue the great conversation about

learning and teaching. Third, the flame

symbolizes the heat which burns

through falsehood and bigotry to seal

our commitment to liberty, justice, and

peace for all. And fourth, the flame

stands as a beacon on a distant shore,

calling to those who seek ways to real-

ize their full potential and make a

meaningful contribution to the world.

Like all fires, the CGU flame

requires careful tending and constant

renewal. Each of us who works here

and who shares in the ideals of this spe-

cial community must become a “keeper

of the flame” to ensure its strength in

the years ahead.

Philip H. Dreyer

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“The Rhetoric of Opportunity”

We all have

the capacity to

inspire others and,

in turn, to be

inspired by them.

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In an age when loyalty to

employers seems to have gone the

way of the ten-cent pay phone call,

Stuart Oskamp’s gift is all the more

outstanding. A professor retiring

from Claremont Graduate

University after a 40-year career, he

and his wife, Catherine Cameron,

are leaving behind a legacy—a gift

of one million dollars for an

endowed chair in psychology.

“CGU has been a major part of

my life for 40 years—well over half

my life,” says Oskamp. “As I thought

about leaving, and not wanting to

leave entirely, I hoped that my past

work and my contributions to the

Psychology department would be

remembered and that my gift would

strengthen the departmental pro-

gram for the future.” Oskamp’s gift,

matched by a two-million-dollar gift

from a member of the CGU Board

of Trustees, will fund the Stuart

Oskamp Chair of Psychology in the

university’s School of Organizational

and Behavioral Sciences (SBOS).

Oskamp, who started his teach-

ing career in 1960, was first hired at

CGU on a one-year contract, earn-

ing $7,000 a year. He became a

leader in the field of social psycholo-

gy, and the publication of his text-

book Applied Social Psychology is con-

sidered a major turning point in the

discipline. The author or editor of

23 books, he also served as editor of

the Journal of Social Issues, as presi-

dent of the American Psychological

Association’s Division of Population

and Environmental Psychology, and

as president of the international

Society for the Psychological Study

of Social Issues.

In recent years, Oskamp’s con-

cern and passion for preserving the

environment have motivated much

of his work. Says colleague Dale

Berger, dean of the School of

Organizational and Behavioral

Sciences at CGU, “His research on

recycling and environmental sustain-

ability has spawned a generation of

students who are carrying on and

extending his innovative work.”

Retiring professor makes

million-dollar gift to CGU

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10th and College

“Robert Wrigley’s Reign of

Snakes is nature poetry at its finest

and most powerful.”

So said CGU President Steadman

Upham as he awarded Wrigley the

$50,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

for 2000 in a ceremony held April

26 at the Los Angeles Public

Library. Wrigley “undergirds images

of water, moose, cats, dogs, deer,

and of course, snakes,” Upham

noted, “with discourses on love, evil,

spiritual seeking, life and death,

faith, and man’s place in the uni-

verse.”

“Robert Wrigley seems to be just

the poet the Tufts had in mind

when they established this award,”

said Alice Quinn, chair of the 2000

Tufts Award Committee and poetry

editor for The New Yorker. “He’s a

mid-career poet of evident distinc-

tion whose new and profoundly lyri-

cal collection is one of his best and

whose future promise is assured by

the gift and discipline he’s so thor-

oughly demonstrated.”

Wrigley, a professor of English at

the University of Idaho, said that he

and his wife, also a writer, “did a

robust dance around the room”

upon learning of the award. “Not

only is it a generous monetary

award,” he said, “but it is also a well-

recognized award because of the

people who have won the award in

the past. To have my own work put

in this category really makes me feel

good.”

Reign of Snakes (Penguin Putnam,

1999) is Wrigley’s sixth published

poetry collection. He has won

numerous awards for his work,

including two National Endowment

for the Arts Fellowships. A commit-

tee of five final judges and three

preliminary judges selected Wrigley

from among 164 applicants.

The late Kate Tufts established

the Kingsley Tufts Award in memory

of her husband, a writer of poetry

and short stories. The award was cre-

ated in 1992 with a $1.25 million

gift to CGU. The annual prize is

designed to aid a poet who is

beyond the beginning but not yet at

the pinnacle of his or her career.

Next year the prize will grow to

$75,000.

The Kate Tufts Discovery Award

was also presented on April 26 in

Los Angeles. Winner Terrance A.

Hayes is assistant professor of

English at Xavier University in New

Orleans. Muscular Music (Tia

Chucha Press, 1999), his first book,

“inhabits an urban landscape, where

buses and basketball courts and sub-

way stops and rainy streets provide

the starting points for travel into the

human heart,” said President

Upham in giving him a check for

$5,000.

The Kate Tufts Discovery Award,

established in 1993, is given annual-

ly for a first or very early work by a

poet of genuine promise. The

judges selected Hayes from among

144 applicants.

Nature Poet Wins 2000 Tufts Award

An eminent seismologist,

an educational visionary, an Oscar-

winning lyricist, and a pioneering

force in broadcast, cable, and film

received honorary doctoral degrees

during CGU’s seventy-third annual

commencement. Clarence Allen,

professor emeritus of geology and

geophysics at the California Institute

of Technology, is also the son of one

of CGU’s first professors. Frank

Biondi, former head of Universal

Studios, Viacom, and Home Box

Office, Inc., is senior managing

director of WaterView Advisors and

will soon serve as chairman of

Massive Media Group. Hal David has

won an Academy Award and a

Grammy Award for his lyrics to

memorable songs such as

“Raindrops Keep Falling on My

Head” and “What the World Needs

Now Is Love.” William Lepley, who

also gave this year’s commencement

address, is president and CEO of the

Milton S. Hershey School in

Hershey, Pennsylvania, and former

director for the Iowa Department of

Education. CGU awarded the hon-

orary degrees during the May 13

commencement ceremony held on

the Mudd Quadrangle.

Honorary degrees awarded in May

NEWS FROM

Top: Robert Wrigley won CGU’s $50,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry

Award. Bottom: Terrance A. Hayes signs his book, Muscular

Music, for Teresa Shaw of the Centers for the Arts and

Humanities.

From left: Steadman Upham, Frank Biondi, William Lepley, Clarence Allen,

Hal David, and Michael Johnston, chair of the CGU Board of Trustees.

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The U.S. News & World

Report annual survey of

graduate programs is out and six

CGU programs rank in the top 50

in their field.

In its survey for 2001, U.S. News

& World Report used a combination

of statistical and reputation data

to establish its rankings, which are

among the most influential and

prestigious in the country.

Of the more than 3,000 colleges

and universities in the United States,

nearly 1,000 grant graduate

degrees. Not every university offers

degrees in every subject, but for

most graduate programs there are

hundreds of schools competing in

the rankings.

“I am so proud of CGU’s out-

standing graduate programs,” says

Provost Ann Hart. “In an academic

world in which size is a huge factor

in rankings such as these, CGU’s

programs have again shown that

national recognition sometimes

points to quality as well.”

The Peter F. Drucker Graduate

School of Management is ranked

twenty-sixth among the nation’s top

business schools in the general

management category. The survey

also recognized the Drucker School

as one of the most selective schools

in the country.

“We are tremendously excited to

have our work recognized in this

way,” said Cornelis de Kluyver,

Henry Y. Hwang dean of the

Drucker School. “It is only through

a renewed focus on our mission to

promote the practice of manage-

ment as a liberal art that a small,

boutique school like ours gets

counted among the top business

schools in the country. This ranking

is a recognition and affirmation of

our commitment to general man-

agement education.”

CGU’s studio art program was

the highest ranked of the universi-

ty’s programs, once again in the top

20 in its field. “Over the years we’ve

been consistently moving toward the

top of the scale with the support of

the administration and the Centers

for the Arts and Humanities,” says

Roland Reiss, chair of the Art

Department. “It is possible that we

could lead the field at some point in

the near future.”

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT 2001 RANKINGS

Economics – Ph.D. 44

English – Ph.D. 40

Fine Arts – MFA 19

Fine Arts Specialites: Painting/Drawing 19

History – Ph.D. 40

Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management 26

Political Science – Ph.D. 47

Psychology – Ph.D. 89

10th and College

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Anshen + Allen—L.A. received a Merit Award from the American Institute of Architects, California Council,

for their work in designing the Ron W. Burkle Family Building, home to The Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of

Management on the CGU campus. The prestigious award was presented at a black-tie event held June 15 aboard the

Queen Mary in Long Beach. (photos by Tom Bonner)

When Christina Gonzalez

came to Claremont Graduate

University to study for her master’s

degree in education, she expected

to feel a sense of community. But

she found CGU for the most part to

be a commuter school. Christina

says “there is very little activity on

campus during the day or on the

weekends.” So when someone gave

her an invitation to attend a Minority

Mentor Program orientation meet-

ing, she decided to go.

The Minority Mentor Program

acquaints newly enrolled minority

students with returning second-year

or third-year students of the same

academic program, gender, or eth-

nic background. More than 500

students have participated in the

program since it began in 1994. The

mentors provide a variety of infor-

mation, from guidance on course-

work and academic resources to

advice on recreational experiences

and restaurant choices.

More often, though, the

Minority Mentor Program provides

participants with an opportunity to

make new friends. “One friendship

can often make the graduate

school experience more comfort-

able and successful,” says Eloisa

Johnson, Minority Mentor Program

coordinator.

Christina met her mentor,

Charmaine Jackson, at her first

Minority Mentor Program meeting.

“We just clicked,” Christina says.

“Even though we really only had to

meet once a month as part of the

Minority Mentor Program, we took

kick up boxing together, went out to

eat, and studied together. We became

very close friends.” Charmaine

moved to Washington, D.C. shortly

after completing her master’s

degree in politics and policy in

1998, but Christina says that they

still stay in contact by email.

“As a graduate student,” says

Christina, “you are always in a state

of turmoil. You ask yourself over and

over, ‘Can I do this? Am I prepared

to do this?’ Becoming a member of

the Minority Mentor Program

helped me to survive. We listened to

each other gripe, and we celebrated

each other’s successes.”

In May, Christina completed her

program and marched with her

classmates across the grassy lawn of

Mudd Quad to receive her diploma.

She says that she will stay in contact

with the friends she has made at

CGU through the Minority Mentor

Program.

“Community,” Christina says, “is

personal relationships, a sense of

belonging, a welcoming feeling of

support. These are people who gave

me a hug when I was down. They

enriched my days, and I feel fortu-

nate that they allowed me to share

space with them. There is something

dynamic in the way we interact. They

are my extended family.”

Minority mentors bring

community to CGU

Claremont Graduate University

fares well in rankings

Math program gets federal scholarship grant

A $300,000 grant made this

year to the CGU Department of

Mathematics will provide four Ph.D.

students with full tuition plus stipend

for the entire length of their doctor-

al program. Ellis Cumberbatch,

Ph.D., professor of mathematics,

says that the funds from the U.S.

Department of Education are desig-

nated for “Graduate Assistance in

Areas of National Need.”

Cumberbatch expects two

students to receive support in the

2000-01 academic year, with the

number eventually growing to four.

A strong effort will be made to

recruit minority students. Recipients

should be interested in college

teaching and in applied mathematics.

NEWS FROM

Charmaine Jackson

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In an era when merger and

acquisition is the name of the game,

it is amazing to find an entire

intellectual endeavor involving two

independent institutions that has

survived and flourished for decades

on what is basically a gentlemen’s

agreement.

The Claremont School of

Theology (CST) and CGU’s School

of Religion celebrated the fortieth

anniversary of their joint graduate

program in religion on May 11 and

12. This cooperative effort began,

and has worked successfully, most of

these years without a formal legal

document or the exchange of

money.

The endeavor began in 1957,

when CST’s president, Ernest

Colwell, and CGU’s dean, Luther

Lee, wrote a proposal to the

Danforth Foundation asking for

funding that would establish a col-

laborative graduate program in reli-

gion. Jack Verheyden, Richard Cain

Professor of Theology and

Ecclesiology and former chair of the

religion department for 15 years,

recalls the story. “When the check

arrived in the mail,” he says,

“Colwell tossed it on Lee’s desk and

asked him if he knew of anyone

wanting to start a world-class, top-

notch, theological institute.”

The two men basically predicted,

and sealed, the future success of the

program with their collegial manner

and banter. By the 1970s, the gradu-

ate religion program was ranked as

one of the top five programs in

the nation, and it continues to be

considered a prominent graduate

center today.

The School of Religion was set

up so that CST faculty taught 70

percent of the graduate religion

courses, while CGU provided

access to other disciplines and

research opportunities. This

arrangement has made it possible

for the school to add and refine

programs that meet new genera-

tions of academic interests.

By joining forces, the School of

Religion was also able to attract

some of the most well-known names

in religious and theological study,

such as James Robinson, founder

of the Institute of Antiquity and

Christianity and primary investigator

on the document “Q”; John Hick, a

prominent English philosopher; and

D.Z. Phillips, world-renowned

expert on the philosophy of religion

and the work of Austrian philoso-

pher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

The graduate religion program

is currently subdivided into Hebrew

Bible, women’s studies in religion,

New Testament, philosophy of

religion and theology, history of

Christianity, and theology, ethics,

and culture. Last fall the school

became the second in the nation to

offer a doctorate in women’s studies

in religion. It is designed for stu-

dents interested in women’s studies,

feminist theory, and the study of

religion. “This program looks at

gender within religion, both histori-

cally and currently,” says Karen

Torjesen, dean of the School of

Religion. “We ask, ‘What difference

does gender make?’”

The School of Religion dreams

of developing in the near future a

field of study in comparative reli-

gion. “Our current strength is in

Christian study,” says associate pro-

fessor Lori Anne Ferrell. “We want

to focus on religious communities

and look at the way in which diverse

religious groups define themselves

within a region. We want to train

students to understand different

ethnographic groups, to understand

their history, and to understand

their cultural context.”

The spirit of collaboration and

friendship set by Colwell and Lee

continues yet today. “We genuinely

enjoy getting together,” says Ferrell.

“The faculty meet informally for

dinner from time to time and at

these gatherings you can sense that

we just like the company we keep.

We have a great time together.”

Verheyden says, “It would be

hard to duplicate the program in

this country today. But, it works

great here!”

A $300,000 gift from The

Coca-Cola Foundation

will make it possible for three

African-American students annually

to pursue the newly established

Master of Arts in Politics,

Economics, and Business degree

(MAPEB) at CGU. Students, to be

recruited from the nation’s histori-

cally black colleges and universities,

will receive a stipend and full

tuition.

In announcing the gift, CGU

President Steadman Upham said

that the fellowship fund brings

together the university’s “goals for

diversity and interdisciplinary stud-

ies and Coca-Cola’s outstanding

record of minority educational

support.”

The MAPEB program, which

admitted its first students in August

1999, synthesizes elements of eco-

nomics, political science, public

policy, and the traditional MBA

curriculum. It is designed to train

business analysts, managers, and

government officials to have a richer

understanding of economic and

political processes than that provid-

ed by the MBA degree. The pro-

gram is offered in CGU’s School of

Politics and Economics.

Jack Stahl, president and chief

operating officer of The Coca-Cola

Company, said of the new program,

“Tomorrow’s government and busi-

ness leaders will come through

Claremont Graduate University.

Enriching the skills of minority stu-

dents will help prepare our cultural-

ly diverse society for the challenges

of the future.”

Students in the four-semester, 48-

unit MAPEB program take required

courses in business and public poli-

cy, finance and accounting, manage-

rial economics, political and global

economics, quantitative research

methods, and more. A wide range of

electives may be drawn from the

Schools of Politics and Economics

and Information Science and from

The Peter F. Drucker Graduate

School of Management.

The Coca-Cola Foundation is the

philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola

Company. Formed in 1984 to sup-

port communities by making chari-

table contributions on behalf of the

company, the Foundation took on

its singular commitment to educa-

tion in 1989. The foundation sur-

passed its goal to contribute $100

million to education early this year.

[For further information about the

MAPEB degree or the Coca-Cola Fellows

program, please call 909-621-8699;

e-mail: [email protected]; Web:

www.cgu.edu/spe/politics/ma05.htm]

CGU and CST celebrate an

unusual partnership

10th and College

Coca-Cola Foundation makes

new graduate fellowships possible

Joseph Platt, Ph.D., and

Jean Platt received the 2000

James A. Blaisdell Award from CGU

President Steadman Upham on

May 22 during a luncheon honoring

members of the James A. Blaisdell

Society. The Platts, who are tireless

volunteers on behalf of the universi-

ty, have named CGU as a beneficiary

in a deferred gift arrangement. The

James A. Blaisdell Society includes

friends and supporters of CGU who

have made life income gifts to the

university, such as charitable trusts

and charitable gift annuities, or who

have named CGU in their will or

living trust. Dr. Platt is President

Emeritus of Claremont Graduate

University (having served 1976-80)

and was the founding president of

Harvey Mudd College. Mrs. Platt is

active in philanthropic organizations

and serves on the board of Rancho

Santa Ana Botanic Garden.

Platts honored with Blaisdell Award

Karen Jo Torjesen, new dean

of the School of Religion

Jack Stahl, president

and chief operating

officer of The Coca-

Cola Company

(right), talks with

CGU president

Steadman Upham.

Joseph and Jean Platt received the Blaisdell Award during a

May luncheon at the home of Steadman and Peggy Upham.

NEWS FROM

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“enjoyable activities involve the interplay of challenge

and skills.”

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Bill Clinton called his book

a favorite. Newt Gingrich

made his work required

reading. Jimmy Johnson

used his ideas to motivate

the Dallas Cowboys to win

the Super Bowl.

So what is psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi doing teaching in a business

school?

“My wife was tired of the winters in Chicago,” he says. “We had a year at the Center for Advanced

Studies in Palo Alto, where we experienced winters in California. After that, she wasn’t going to be happy

unless we moved.”

Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced “Chick sent me high”) had taught in the

University of Chicago’s department of behavioral sciences for almost 30 years, six

as chairman. “I thought I would retire and write and not do anything strenuous,”

he says. “But then I started having offers from USC and UCLA and CGU.” Much

to the delight of CGU, he accepted the offer to join the Drucker School as

Davidson Professor of Management, beginning in August 1999. Why Claremont?

“I like the people; I like the environment,” he explains. “I thought maybe it

could be difficult to get used to Los Angeles. But this community was much

more livable and understandable.”

The arbored streets and airy classrooms of Claremont are a stark contrast

to the bomb-scarred Italy where Csikszentmihalyi spent his early childhood dur-

ing World War II. Yet it was the chaos he endured during the war that sparked

his interest in the psychology of play and eventually led to his groundbreaking

work on flow, the psychology of optimal experience.

“When things were really bad at the end of the war, I noticed that when I

played chess, or read a good book, or played games with friends, during those

times I was able to temporarily be out of the misery of the war and experience

something much more enjoyable and vital,” he recalls. “Last year there was the

movie, Life Is Beautiful, with the father trying to make his son forget the concen-

tration camp. In a sense, [my experience in the war] was in part what made me

realize that it’s possible to step out temporarily, at least, from a wretched reality

and experience something different.”

Csikszentmihalyi came to the United States at the age of 22 to study

psychology, academic departments in the discipline not existing at the time in

In the Flow

by Marilyn Thomsen

Europe. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of

Chicago in 1965 and took a teaching position at

nearby Lake Forest College. While teaching a senior

seminar there, he developed the initial insight into

what eventually would be called “flow,” a state of

being in which a person is carried along by the joy

of an all-encompassing activity.

In doing his dissertation research on creativity

in artists, Csikszentmihalyi had seen flow in action.

“I’d observed how artists could immerse themselves

in their work for days on end and forget or ignore

their environment and physical needs,” he says. At

first, he thought such transformation was only possi-

ble for artists or musicians.

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admits in the indefinable accent of a man who

speaks seven languages and reads eight. “Writing

can be flow-producing after the first half hour, forty-

five minutes—after you’ve despaired that you can

write anything good and [quit] trying to find some

excuse to do something else.”

These days, Csikszentmihalyi’s attention is

focused on the Quality of Life Institute. Housed in

the Drucker School, it is one of three such centers

across the country researching aspects of what is

now called Positive Psychology—a movement to see

psychology not just as the study of mental illness,

but of what makes people happy and fulfilled.

“The one at the University of Illinois-Urbana is

looking at the quality of momentary experiences:

what makes the person feel happy or good about

life at the moment,” he says. “Ours here in

Claremont is looking at the good person and the

good life, which means quality of life looked at over

the life span. The third center, in Philadelphia, is

looking at the good community—how society, cul-

ture, and the environment promote a good life.”

Initial funding is in place for four years, but

Csikszentmihalyi expects it may continue longer.

“Hopefully it’s going to run until we discover what

makes the quality of life worthwhile,” he says. “A

thousand years?”

Perhaps mellowed by a thousand such

inquiries, Csikszentmihalyi is patient when asked

about his name—which seems nearly impossible for

phonetically challenged Americans to pronounce.

“‘Csik,’ the first four letters, refer to our province

which is in Transylvania, now in Romania. It’s under

the mountains that divide Hungary from Romania,”

he says. In the fourteenth century, his family—

believed to descend from the youngest son of Attila

the Hun—was given land there to farm in exchange

for defending the pass, which they did with the help

of 500 mercenaries from Germany.

“In 1699, at Christmas, there was such a snow-

storm in the mountains that they figured nobody

was going to come, so they invited all the soldiers

for a big party,” he recounts. “The Tartars actually

did come through the pass, and they took seven

members of the family back to Crimea. They sent

letters—still well-preserved—asking for ransom.

These Tartars knew what they wanted: 500 golden

ducats, 12 liveries with silver buttons for the court, a

pocket watch made in Paris. It took years for the

rest of the family to gather up the stuff.”

The phone rings. Csikszentmihalyi lays plans

for yet another trip for yet another interview, this

one on creativity with a dancer in her eighties. After

a lifetime of research, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is

still obviously in the flow. His newest book, on

Becoming Adult (with Barbara Schneider) just came

out in May.

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At Lake Forest, though, his students inter-

viewed people engaged in a variety of activities

adults consider play. As he diagrammed the com-

mon elements of these experiences on a chalk-

board, one recurring theme emerged: enjoyable

activities involve the interplay of challenge and

skills. “I slowly realized that it’s not confined to cre-

ative work,” he says. “Children and adults experi-

ence it in a variety of different ways, in everything

from gambling to work.”

Returning to the University of Chicago in

1970, this time as a professor, Csikszentmihalyi had

the opportunity to pursue his study more deeply.

Using a grant from the U.S. Public Health Service

to research work satisfaction, he hired graduate

students to interview people involved in all kinds

of “autotelic” activities—those in which people are

motivated by a drive within themselves, not just

external forces such as family or wages.

During staff meetings, the term “flow”

became shorthand for “autotelic” (“intrinsically

motivated”), which Csikszentmihalyi considers fortu-

nate. “I am sure that if we had continued to use the

precise but cumbersome ‘autotelic experience,’ few

people outside the academic community would

have paid attention.”

But pay attention they did, especially as the

volume of research on flow grew exponentially. In

the mid-1970s, Csikszentmihalyi and a graduate stu-

dent, Suzanne Prescott, developed the Experience

Sampling Method (ESM) to track flow in everyday

life. Participants in the study were given pagers—

new technology at the time—that were activated at

random times during the day. After each signal,

they filled out a self-report form rating their experi-

ence. “If a person reported flow-like experiences

once every 10 responses, it made sense to assume

that 10 percent of his or her life was spent in a state

resembling flow,” he wrote.

Over time, other researchers—notably

Fausto Massimini at the University of Milan—also

began to study flow. “Massimini found in flow theo-

ry the conceptual mechanism that explained how a

multitude of small individual choices could result in

large-scale social changes and eventually in cultural

change,” Csikszentmihalyi wrote in a new preface to

the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Beyond

Boredom and Anxiety, his first major book. “People

tend to repeat activities that are enjoyable, and

these activities eventually become part of a culture’s

repertory.…the lifestyles that define civilizations can

be better understood in terms of the repetition of

activities that produce flow, rather than in terms of

the convoluted explanations of historical material-

ism or psychoanalysis.”

The publication of Flow: The Psychology of

Optimal Experience in 1990 brought Csikszentmihalyi’s

work front and center with leaders in government,

business, and the arts. Now translated into 15 lan-

guages, its concepts have been used by organiza-

“…the term ‘flow’ became shorthand for ‘autotelic’ (‘intrinsically motivated’).”

tions as diverse as Cirque du Soleil and Montessouri schools, the British Cabinet

and the Getty Museum. Nissan applied flow to car design to make driving more

pleasurable. Newsweek magazine wrote that Flow was one of President Clinton’s

favorite books. Recently, the Austrian Cabinet invited Csikszentmihalyi to address

them on how flow could influence education in the twenty-first century.

Reading Csikszentmihalyi’s 1999 publication list and lecture schedule is

daunting in itself—19 lectures on creativity and flow, eight journal articles, three

books in press. During the past year he has also made the transition from teach-

ing psychology students to teaching business students.

“This has allowed me to have a different type of experience with different

students, different concerns,” he says, noting that he has to rethink everything

he’s doing in light of the new audience. “You’re preparing psychology students

to be academics,” he explains. “But when you teach in a business school, that’s

largely irrelevant. What the MBA students need is tools to reach their goals.”

The executive management students, though, have already attained

career success. “Many of them come back to school because they are interested

in broadening their horizons and learning about themselves in the larger

scheme of things,” he says. Judging from the applause as class concluded on a

recent Saturday afternoon, the students in the course team-taught by Csikszent-

mihalyi and Dick Ellsworth on “Leadership and the Making of Meaning” were

stretched beyond expectation. Many expressed the view that the class had been

life-changing as they had opportunity to explore issues deeply felt but rarely

expressed by successful managers.

Though he teaches in a school that bears the Drucker name, Csikszent-

mihalyi, before coming to Claremont, knew little more about Peter Drucker than

that he had turned down his request to be part of a study on creativity. At the

time Drucker wrote Csikszentmihalyi a letter—included in the book Creativity

(page 14) saying he didn’t believe in creativity, he believed in productivity: work

very hard, create the right conditions, and you are likely to come up with innova-

tive or creative ideas.

“I wasn’t sure what he meant until I read his book,” Csikszentmihalyi says,

“and then I realized we actually were pretty close in our ideas. His notion of

innovation and entrepreneurship is based on the same assumptions I’m mak-

ing—paying attention to managerial processes that make creativity more likely.”

Does the master of flow experience it himself in his work? Sitting in his

small but sunny office on a mild late spring morning, he smiles. “Not always,” he

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became an educator at the college

level. The demographics of Los

Angeles provided a rich opportu-

nity to work with a variety of non-

traditional students. She developed

programs to help non-native

English speakers pass basic profi-

ciency tests, and mentored and

worked with athletes, young

Latina women, and former gang

members who had decided to

pursue higher education.

As an educator and community

activist, she has a passion for two

issues—women’s status in society

and increasing access to higher

education. Commitment to these

causes led to her involvement in

the political life of Los Angeles.

Over the years she volunteered

her time and resources to help

candidates such as Richard

Alatorre, Gloria Molina, Hilda

Solis, Jackie Goldberg, and Gloria

Romero get elected.

Though she had strong politi-

cal alliances and an active support

network, the thought of running

for elective office had never

crossed her mind. But when

Gloria Romero ran for State

Assembly, the college district

trustee vacancy came open.

People began to urge Scott-Hayes

to run because she had a lot of

active relationships and an excel-

lent network of support. “I had a

big mouth about the problems in

higher education,” she laughs.

For the next seven months, her

life became a blur. She tried to

juggle classes, continue working,

and run her campaign in her

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hough Sylvia Scott-Hayes may be the

most influential elected official in the

student body, she’s not the only CGU

student doing important work in poli-

tics. Students in the School of Politcs and

Economics are organizing farm workers, serving as

strategic consultants, appearing on political talk

shows, and helping to shape local and national

races.

Jean Schroedel is the driving force behind an

innovative new program in political education, the

Master of Arts in Politics (MAP). “For a long time

my colleagues and I were working with students

after hours on an informal basis to help get them

into politics. I asked myself, ’Is this something we

could be doing more formally?’”

Schroedel gathered key faculty together to

see if there was interest in developing a more for-

malized process. Faculty members from across the

political spectrum came together to form a new

program that would systematically train students to

work in politics.

The MAP program is designed to prepare

political professionals for real-world work in the

rough-and-tumble of American politics. It is a prac-

tical model that develops the knowledge and skill

sets of individuals who want to shape society’s

future through political action.

Several students in the program are already

making an impact in California politics. Doctoral

candidate, Frances Marquez’ political contributions

include a remarkable behind-the-scenes career in

California politics. Her resume reads like that of a

seasoned veteran—field organizer for Senator

Diane Feinstein’s race for governor, volunteer for

Gloria Molina’s campaign for Los Angeles County

Supervisor, Hilda Solis’ Assembly race, Xavier

Becerra’s run for Congress, and field organizer for

Clinton-Gore. Marquez is also a featured panelist

on L.A.’s first TV weekly talk show on Latino poli-

tics.

“The average person has no idea what goes

into a political campaign. They see the TV commer-

cials, listen to sound bites, but they really have no

idea how much work goes into an election,” says

Marquez.

Lee Kersten is enrolled in the Ph.D. program

with tracks in political philosophy and American

government. He works for California State Senator

John Lewis (R-Orange County). Kersten’s disserta-

tion focuses on the California ballot initiative

process. “It’s a great feeling to go to the polls and

personally know nearly everyone on the ballot, and

to know exactly what they stand for,” he remarks.

Gabriel Buelna first became involved in poli-

tics assisting with boycotts for the United

Farmworkers. He raised funds and organized

precincts against the controversial Proposition 187.

He also worked on a key L.A. Unified School

District campaign and on a campaign to increase

affordable housing in Los Angeles County.

Buelna, a doctoral candidate in political sci-

ence, lecturer in the Chicano Studies Department

at Cal State Northridge, and an associate with

Issues Management Network, has a particular

interest in Mexican-American elected officials. His

dissertation will examine candidates’ campaigns

and voting records and other public activities, fol-

lowed by interviews with elected officials, contrast-

ing their stated perspectives with those of their

actual records. “Since California Latinos are cur-

rently the largest minority in the state and will

become the majority in just a few decades, under-

standing issues of importance to this community is

essential to all residents of the state,” he notes.

When local political activist James Potter

ran for a seat on the Pomona City Council,

he brought Marta Casper—a Ph.D. candidate in

Politics and Policy and a community college

teacher—on board as campaign coordinator. While

there, a scandal occurred involving a political rival.

“Having to deal with the scandal and watching the

media treatment of it gave me an experience that

not everyone has,” Casper says. “More importantly,

it gave me a lot of material to bring back into

education.”

Grassroots and beyond

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BALLOT BOX

The transformation

of Sylvia Scott-Hayes

from politics student

to elected official

by Carol Bliss

ylvia Scott-Hayes

dislikes being photo-

graphed, hates fund-

raising, and doesn’t much care

for the spotlight. If this seems

like an odd recipe for a success-

ful politician, Scott-Hayes is an

unusual woman. Self-effacing

and low-key, she downplays her

accomplishments, preferring the

role of humble public servant.

Who is this unlikely politician,

and how did she go from

Claremont Graduate University

classroom to elective office rep-

resenting more than four million

constituents?

Two years ago, Scott-Hayes,

a Ph.D. student in the School

of Politics and Economics, was

learning to run other people’s

campaigns, not launch one her-

self. Today she is a college trustee,

making decisions that affect

thousands of classrooms in the

largest community college dis-

trict in the nation.

Scott-Hayes returned to

school after she married and had

children. As a reentry Chicana,

she learned the value of educa-

tion from a perspective different

than that of many traditional stu-

dents. It proved helpful when she

Twenty years ago, transilluminators, as they were then called, were tested as a way

to detect breast tumors. But they were not sensitive enough in calculating the absorp-

tion and scattering of the light to be useful. “They worked more like a flashlight

pressed against the skin than a high-tech diagnostic tool,” wrote a reporter for the

Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The latest generation of optical mammography tools, however, is light-years beyond the earlier models. The device is based on the

idea that light travels slightly differently through normal tissue than through abnormal. If a malignancy is present, there are slight differ-

ences in the amount and intensity of the light that reaches the probe. A body of mathematical ideas, called “transport theory,” makes it

possible to simulate this process inside a computer.

“The laser probe itself is exquisitely sensitive to subtle tissue changes,” says Jerome Spanier, director of the CGU Research Institute

of Applied Mathematical Science, who developed the mathematical system needed to support the device. “Our mathematical algorithm

contributes to a deeper understanding of how the normal tissue and the cancerous tissue differ.”

So sensitive is the device, according to Bruce Tromberg, director of the Beckman Laser Institute’s Laser Microbeam and Medical

Program, that it can detect hormonal changes within the breast tissue during a woman’s monthly and lifetime hormonal cycle. Because of

its hormonal sensitivity, Tromberg and his team are using optical mammography to image

and follow volunteers as part of the nationwide study of the cancer preventative drugs

tamoxifen and raloxifene.

CGU’s Department of Mathematics has for a quarter century partnered with

government agencies and industry sponsors, like Beckman Institute, to solve real-world

problems. Through the Math Clinic, student teams work with companies in the aerospace,

oil, and electronic industries, and with diverse organizations such as the Pomona Water

District, the Los Angeles Superior Court, and the U.S. Forestry Service. Generally, projects

are developed so they can be completed within a year.

The Research Institute for Applied Mathematical Science grew out of the Math Clinic

and was launched in 1998 as the research arm of the mathematics department. The Institute

works on projects that require the development of advanced mathematical, computational,

and numerical techniques. The projects generally take more than a year to complete. The

hand-held laser device is now in its third year of development.

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Malignant or Benign?

Math Institute may provide the answer

by Patricia Florez

Each year, millions of patients agonize

while awaiting the results of a biopsy. A breast

tumor: is it cancerous or benign? That question

may soon be answered instantaneously, thanks to

the breakthrough research of the Beckman Laser

Institute with mathematical support from CGU.

The marriage of optical physics and mathematics has created what may be the

next generation of diagnostic tools. A hand-held probe—a laser with near-infrared

light—may enable researchers to map the “optical signature” of breast tissue and

confirm whether a tumor is malignant or not. Although not yet ready for clinical use,

optical mammography is being tested by the Beckman Laser Institute at the

University of California, Irvine, and appears to hold promise.

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spare time. As time went on, the

campaign became all-consum-

ing. She was running for an at-

large position in a district that

covered 847 square miles and

“was also shocked to find out

that in spite of my great endorse-

ments and labor support, I still

had to raise close to $100,000 to

run an effective campaign.”

Knowledge gained in CGU

classes became invaluable. “You

may not believe this, but I found

myself using information from

my class readings and discussions

at some of my debates and televi-

sion interviews,” she remarks.

Scott-Hayes’ path to elective

office began with a phone call to

Parke Skelton, a top political

consultant. Skelton didn’t know

if she had the grit to win—either

the fundraising ability or the dis-

position for high-profile cam-

paign stumping. After a lengthly

conversation, he believed she had

the makings of a successful can-

didate and became her political

consultant. Scott-Hayes followed

Skelton’s advice and took her

message to homeowner’s groups,

women’s groups, Latino groups,

educational groups, and commu-

nity organizations all over the

city. Friends and supporters

scheduled mixers and fund-

raisers—everything from elegant

events at the Biltmore to infor-

mal gatherings on Olvera Street.

To raise money, Scott-Hayes

made hundreds of phone calls

to potential donors. Her husband

and sons developed creative

campaign materials and main-

tained several fundraising data-

bases which included hundreds

of individuals and a carefully

culled listing of community

groups. She networked diligent-

ly. “I campaigned from Calabasas

to East L.A. We did community

meetings and focus groups. I

met with labor unions including

community college faculty, staff,

administrators, police, and stu-

dents,” she recalls.

The unions issued policy

questions to candidates. Scott-

Hayes did a tremendous amount

of research and returned well

prepared. “I answered their

questions, not necessarily in the

way that they expected but in

the way that I believed. I knew

my facts and they respected that.

I didn’t always agree with union

positions and said so. But I

always explained why,” she notes.

Research and candor paid off

when the unions threw their sup-

port behind her in the primary.

She won the election over eight

other candidates and was sworn

in on July 2, 1999.

During Scott-Hayes’ first year

in office the community college

district has made significant

strides. The trustees decided to

place a 980 million dollar bond

measure on the April ballot, and

the colleges have applied for

and received ten million dollars

in Title V grants. Three new

presidents have been appointed.

“As a trustee I have a voice and a

vision—two elements necessary

to begin to make our community

colleges great institutions of

higher learning for the hundreds

of thousands who are on the

road to great things,” she says

proudly. She is a chair of the

Accreditation Committee and

sits on a subcommittee oversee-

ing issues such as diversity,

recruitment, and unfair testing.

She was recently elected vice

president of the board.

Today Scott-Hayes continues

to pursue her doctorate in poli-

tics and public policy at CGU. In

addition to her trustee responsi-

bilities, she is director of the

University Testing Center at Cal

State L.A., serves on the Los

Angeles County Commission on

Human Relations, and was

recently reappointed to the Los

Angeles County Judicial Proced-

ures Commission by Supervisor

Gloria Molina. This spring,

Scott-Hayes went back to East

Los Angeles, not far from where

she grew up, this time to partici-

pate in Commencement 2000 at

East L.A. Community College in

her new role as a trustee. When

the graduates were asked how

many were the first in their fami-

ly to go to college, 80 percent

stood to their feet.

“The community colleges are

such an important part of the

path to success,” she says with

genuine enthusiasm. “I get chills

thinking about it—the possibili-

ty, the responsibility.”

“As a trustee

I have a voice

and a vision—

two elements

necessary…

to make our

community

colleges great…”

Jerome Spanier

stubby L-shaped sprout, he immediately recognized

a potential Pinocchio.

Roberto Madrigal has worked at the university

for 15 years. During that time, he has created more

than 400 statues, put a son through college, and

held three major exhibitions, at Garrison Theater,

Pitzer College, and the DA Center for the Arts in

Pomona. Pelicans, monkeys, and elephants grace

the homes and offices of several professors. Roberto

has proudly given away many pieces to faculty and

admirers.

His tools are gnarled wooden mallets, a little

like a sixteenth-century artisan might have used.

His tool of choice is a weathered Old-Timer pocket-

knife and an occasional chain saw for larger works,

like the 500-pound California black bear, his per-

sonal tribute to the two Pomona College students

killed by the falling tree in 1997, or the fierce, no-

nonsense sheriff standing guard in the lobby of the

security building.

John Regan is an anthropologist and professor

of education. He studies and teaches semiotics—the

interpretation of signs or visual intelligence. From a

purely academic aspect, Regan finds Madrigal’s

work astonishing, particularly in its brilliant sense of

form and inherently creative spatial composition.

“Roberto Madrigal is a fascinating study, a

brilliant example of human semiotic potential,” says

Regan. “He perceives physical form as a creative

medium, something humorous, beautiful, and

innately creative. He is a pure artist, creating for

the sheer joy of it.”

Regan compares Madrigal’s unique perceptual

ability to famous sculptors whose groundbreaking

perceptions changed art forever. “Rodin broke into

the art world with a concept that didn’t exist before.

He began by perceiving people untethered in the

conventional sense. Later, Degas saw form, spinning,

balanced on a single point. Madrigal’s art comes

from a similar kind of perception.”

When construction crews started breaking

ground for the Burkle building, Madrigal would sift

through truckloads of debris as it came out of the

ground, taking it home to create art. “He is a

marvelous, pleasant, generous man, that rare joyful

human being, because he is forever creating,”

remarks Regan.

Deepak Shimkhada, faculty support for the

Drucker School and lecturer in philosophy at

Claremont McKenna College, has been following

Madrigal’s work for many years. Shimkhada is writ-

ing about Madrigal’s unique artistic achievements as

a part of a doctoral dissertation on perception. “He

has almost a third eye,” Shimkhada notes. “He sees

images where we fail to see. He has the ability to

create an amazing figure, going directly to the

form, without sketching.”

Much of Madrigal’s work retains the original

texture: bark becomes fur on a wild coyote or the

cascading headdress of a proud Native American

chief. The stem of an agave plant becomes the cur-

vature of canvas on a pioneer’s covered wagon.

Shimkhada sees a Jungian influence in Madrigal’s

art, the unconscious bringing forward evocative

images from his past, “the figures reflective of child-

hood memories in a Mexican village where cows

and bulls roamed freely.”

Madrigal may have first been inspired by the

carved rock temple faces in his home town of

Jiquilpan, Mexico. Like many villagers, his family

didn’t have much money. As a boy he began carving

to make his own toys, then continued just to earn a

little money.

Madrigal’s son, Marco, is also an artist. Where

his father’s media are oak, orange, and lemon trees,

roots, and eucalyptus, Marco Madrigal paints with

oils in hot reds and vibrant golds on large canvases

with titles like, “Midnight Infidelity.” Marco is a 1998

graduate of Pitzer College with a degree in studio

art. His paintings have an abstract sculptural quality,

an almost evolutionary link to his father’s statues.

Marco says, “My dad has always been very generous

and given his work away. He has an eye for seeing

what’s already there. He has always done it for the

pure pleasure of creativity, finding life in life itself.”

Almost any day of the week, a happy, creative

figure in a floppy straw hat can be seen driving a

little motorized cart around campus, looking up

toward the sky, finding animals hidden in branches,

art disguised as trees. Is it a monkey, a tiger,

Geppeto?

WHERE THE

ORDINARY EYE SEES

leaves, trees, and branches,

CGU groundskeeper Roberto Madrigal sees

monkeys, snakes, and bears. Like a modern-day

Michelangelo, he simply releases the form by

carving away the excess.

Madrigal was recently found on a summer

morning with a crew of men on the grounds of

Honnold Library. Mounds of freshly dug dirt lay

along a 20-foot trench. The crew was preparing for

pipe that would soon carry high-speed Internet

connections—global digital data, flying at the rate

of two millibytes per second.

Steps away, yet worlds removed from this gate-

way to high technology, Roberto pulled a carefully

shrouded work in progress from a small motorized

cart. The little wooden puppet had a lank, limber

quality. Sitting bolt upright, it looked as if it might

spring to life at any moment. Pink striations sug-

gested a familiar grain of wood. Maple, teak, burl?

It turned out to be tree root, pepper tree to be exact,

its wood still damp and cool to the touch. When

Madrigal first spotted this particular root with its

The Michelangelo of Trees

by Carol Bliss

“He is a marvelous, pleasant, generous man, that rare joyful

human being, because he is forever creating.”

said and done

Lourdes Arguelles (Education) received

the Golden Hands Achievement

Award for Community Service from

the Boys and Girls Club of Pomona

Valley in June. She was a presenter on

“Alternative Pedagogies” for the PEW

Youth Discipleship Project annual

meeting of research scholars at the

Claremont School of Theology in

February. Arguelles also spoke on

“Pitzer in Ontario: An Experiment in

Community Based Learning” at a con-

ference held at the Gervitz Research

Center in Santa Barbara in May.

Dale Berger (dean, SBOS) is studying

the use and abuse of alcohol among

the Los Angeles County Latino com-

munity under a research contract with

the Tomàs Rivera Center. He is also

researching “Web Interface for Statis-

tics Education,” with funding from the

Mellon Small Grants Program.

William Crano (SBOS) presented

papers on “A Theoretical Model of

Minority Influence” at the Society for

Personality and Social Psychology

annual convention in February and

on “In-group and Out-group

Influence: The Leniency Contract” at

the University of Toulouse in France

in March. He also presented papers at

the Social Psychology Winter Confer-

ence on “Reference Group Influence

and the Maximal Group Procedure”

in January and on “The Leniency

Contract, Group Maintenance, and

Social Change” at the group meeting

of the European Association of

Experimental Social Psychology in

Grenoble, France, in March.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Drucker) gave

nine keynote addresses, including

“Flow and Health” at the California

Institute of Technology in January,

“Creativity” at the University of Kansas

in March, “Happiness in the New

Millennium” at the Zukunftkonferenz

in Berlin in March, and “Music and

Flow” at Indiana University in April.

Stuart Donaldson (SBOS) was principal

investigator on three grants: Work and

Health Initiative, California Wellness

Foundation; Riverside County Mental

Health Services; and Family Index

Program, Office of Juvenile Justice

Planning.

Enid Douglas (History) presented

“Where Did We Start, Where Are We

Headed: Four Generations of Oral

Historians Reflect on the Past,

Present, and Future of Oral History”

in April at the Southwest Oral History

Association Annual Meeting in Long

Beach, California.

Philip H. Dreyer (Education; also associ-

ate provost) serves as convener of the

Society for Research on Identity

Formation (SRIF), an international

group of people doing research on

lifespan human development with

emphasis on psychosocial identity and

personal meaning. Its journal will be

called Identity—An International

Journal of Theory and Research. He also

directs the annual Claremont Reading

Conference and the Young People’s

Reading Conference.

Patricia Easton (Philosophy) is a Fall

2000 recipient of a scholar-in-resi-

dence grant from the Albert and

Elaine Borchard Foundation. She will

produce a translation and commen-

tary of a little-known seventeenth cen-

tury text which sheds new light on the

most important intellectual movement

in seventeenth century France,

Cartesianism.

Lori Anne Ferrell (Religion) was named

a National Endowment for the

Humanities Long-term Fellow, Folger

Shakespeare Library, Washington,

D.C., beginning in September 2000.

In May she was a featured speaker at a

symposium on “British Political

Thought in the Seventeenth Century”

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ETER B OYER, Smith Hobson

Family Chair in Music at

Claremont Graduate University, has

received three significant commissions

to compose new orchestral works, pre-

miering in locations around the

United States between July and

November.

The first commission is from the

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, a

leading regional orchestra in

Michigan. This work was commis-

sioned by Bronson Hospital to cele-

brate the opening of The New

Bronson, a nearly-$200-million facility

that opens this fall. Boyer’s composi-

tion, a jubilant 12-minute work for

large orchestra entitled New Beginnings,

will be premiered at the opening con-

cert of the Kalamazoo Symphony’s sea-

son, September 22, 2000, and be

recorded by the orchestra the follow-

ing day. Conductor Raymond Harvey,

who selected Boyer for the commis-

sion, will lead the orchestra. Harvey previous-

ly conducted Boyer’s award-winning tone

poem Titanic with the Fresno Philharmonic.

The second commission is from the Oregon

Mozart Players, an outstanding chamber

orchestra in Eugene that received funding

from the Hult Foundation in Eugene to com-

mission this work from Boyer. The new 12-

minute work for chamber orchestra, entitled

Ghosts of Troy, is a tone poem inspired by the

Trojan War. Ghosts of Troy, along with Boyer’s

song cycle perchance to dream…, an existing

work, will be premiered November 4-5, 2000.

Andrew Massey, who also previously conducted

Boyer’s Titanic, with the Toledo Symphony,

will conduct these concerts.

The third commission is from the Conductors

Institute at Bard College, a renowned sum-

mer training program for conductors led by

Harold Farberman. This work is Three

Olympians, a 15-minute work for string orches-

tra. Each of its three movements, "Apollo,"

"Aphrodite," and "Aries," portrays a Greek

god or goddess who resided on Mount

Olympus. Thus two of Boyer’s three new com-

missions draw inspiration form Greek mythol-

ogy, just as his Titanic was inspired by what

Boyer describes as "contemporary myth-

ology." Three Olympians was conducted by the

40 conducting students of the Conductors

Institute at Bard College in New York, July 10-

14, 2000, during which time Boyer was

in residence as a faculty member at the

Institute.

In addition to these commissions,

Boyer is preparing to make a recording

of his music with the London

Symphony Orchestra, at EMI-Abbey

Road Studios, London, on January 2-3,

2001. Boyer will conduct the London

Symphony Orchestra in these record-

ing sessions. The recording will be pro-

duced by six-time Grammy-winning

record producer Michael Fine, and will

include all three of these new commis-

sions, as well as Boyer’s works Titanic,

The Phoenix, and Celebration Overture.

The recording will be released by Koch

International Classics in 2001.

Boyer, 30, is widely becoming known as

one of the leading young American

composers. His music has been praised

in The New York Times, USA TODAY, and

American Record Guide, among others.

His works have been premiered in venues

such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Los

Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, and Hartford’s,

The Busnell. He is also an active conductor,

and is on the conducting faculty of The

Henry Mancini Institute at UCLA. Boyer,

appointed to the Smith Hobson Family Chair

in Music at Claremont Graduate University in

1999 after serving as visiting professor since

1996, teaches courses that include composi-

tion, twentieth-century music, American film

music history, and music technology.

Peter Boyer receives significant commissions

to record with London Symphony Orchestra

“New Beginnings,” “Ghosts of Troy,” and “Three Olympians”

C LAREMONT G RADUATE U NIVERSITY

PLANT GENUS IS NAMED FOR CGU BOTANIST

Four decades after he published a paper about it, a

plant genus has been named for Sherwin Carlquist (professor of botany,

emeritus). “The plant was originally named Raillardella muirii by Asa Gray,

the noted Harvard botanist,” says Carlquist. “The name muirii was selected

by Gray because John Muir discovered the plant and sent a specimen to Asa

Gray. I feel very honored to have my name linked with that of John Muir.”

Molecular studies by Bruce Baldwin, a professor at the University of

California-Berkeley, confirmed the results of Carlquist’s 1959 paper, which

showed that Raillardella belonged, in fact, in the tarweeds, a group of the

sunflower family in which it had not been placed before. “Because molecular

results show that the species muirii is in a line that diverges from the other

tarweed groups, Bruce Baldwin has put muirii in

a genus by itself, which he has named

Carlquistia,” says Carlquist. Since the species

name muirii must be kept, the new name for

this plant becomes Carlquistia muirii.

“I have enjoyed research just as much in

retirement as I did before retirement,”

Carlquist says. “Since retiring in December,

1992, I have published 82 papers, all in books

or in peer-reviewed journals.”

Carlquist’s career at Claremont Graduate

University began in 1956 and continued for 37

years.

faculty spotlight

Carlquistia muirii

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bookshelf

The Guilt of Nations: Restitution

and Negotiating Historical Injustices

by Elazar Barkan, Associate Professor of

History (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,

2000)

History is littered with horrible crimes

against groups of people; Nazi

Germany’s genocidal campaign and

America’s slave trade are just two

prominent examples. This book asks

how modern nations, armed with a

new understanding of the political

value of recognizing guilt, can amend

these historical injustices and deliver

lasting, satisfying resolutions.

Making History Matter

by Robert Dawidoff, John D. and Lillian

Maguire Distinguished Chair and

Professor of History (Temple University

Press, 2000)

Anyone intrigued by the notion that

Fred Astaire is a Jeffersonian should

read this book. If you are a history

buff, watch PBS documentaries and

read the American classics, love the

movies, care about the rights and

experience of lesbians and gay men,

if you are concerned that the culture

wars and politics have distorted the

necessity of diversity in American life

and the hard truths about how we

need to stop the devastation of AIDS,

Making History Matter might be the

book for you.

The English Sermon Revised

edited by Lori Anne Ferrell, Associate

Professor of History of Christianity and

Co-chair of the Joint Program in Religion,

and Peter McCullough (Manchester

University Press, 2000)

This volume of essays reassesses and

reasserts the centrality of preaching

in early modern English culture.

Showcasing the work of established

experts and scholars in the fields of

English literature, history, and reli-

gious studies, it offers a retrospective

review of how sermons have figured

in past scholarship and teaching, and

points to new ways to study sermons

as literary artifact and historical evi-

dence.

Strategic Thinking:

An Executive Perspective

by Cornelis de Kluyver, Henry Y. Hwang

Dean of the Peter F. Drucker School of

Management and Professor of

Management (Prentice-Hall, 2000).

Technology and global events are

changing the corporate environment

at a furious pace; for executives to

succeed, they must keep up with these

changes and with new ways of strate-

gic thinking. This book is one of the

only brief, up-to-date, truly readable

overviews of the field of strategy.

Strategic Thinking: An Executive Perspec-

tive provides a practical approach and

a broad perspective on the major

issues in strategy development.

Power Transitions

by Jacek Kugler, Rosecrans Professor of

International Relations, Ronald L.

Tammen, Douglas Lemke, and Allan C.

Stamm III (Chatham House, 2000)

Power Transitions outlines the tectonic

plate shifts that are expected in world

politics in the 21st century—the rise

of China and India, the shift of great

power wars from Europe to Asia, the

continuing importance of U.S. leader-

ship. It prescribes strategies for the

United States which will allow it

to meet or blunt challenges to its cur-

rent status as a dominant power.

The Homeric Epics and

the Gospel of Mark

by Dennis R. MacDonald, John Wesley

Professor of New Testament (Yale

University Press, 2000)

Was the Gospel of Mark a picture of

early Christian reality? Or was the

Gospel of Mark a created myth?

According to Dennis R. MacDonald,

author of the newly published book

“The Homeric Epics and the Gospel

of Mark,” there are parallels between

the Gospel of Mark and the stories of

Odysseus in the “Odyssey” and Hector

in the “Iliad.” MacDonald’s work

presents a radical thesis that chal-

lenges widely held views of the history

of early Christianity and Jesus.

Lasting Value: Lessons from a Century of

Agility at Lincoln Electric

by Joseph A. Maciariello, Horton

Professor of Business Administration

(John Wiley & Sons, 1999)

This book explains how the manage-

ment systems at Lincoln Electric, a

billion-dollar global company and

pioneer in values-based management,

has remained a world leader in indus-

trial electronics for over a century. It

describes how the company’s sus-

tained success is due to its natural

development of agility. This has, in

turn, influenced Lincoln’s cultural

environment, including its ethical

underpinnings and well-publicized

incentive system.

Solidarity of Others in the Triune God:

A Theology for the Reform of Korean

Catholicism

by Anselm Min, Professor of Religion

(Benedict Press, 2000)

The book presents a Trinitarian

Christology, pneumatology, and eccle-

siology as basis for reform of Korean

Catholicism, especially its authoritari-

anism and ecclesiocentrism. It pleads

for emancipation of the laity from

clerical control for the mission of the

church and of the mission of the

church from its self-preoccupation for

service to the world.

Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination

edited by Stuart Oskamp, Professor of

Psychology (Erlbaum, 2000)

Reducing prejudice and discrimina-

tion is a central goal in attacking

racism in our society, yet this book is

almost unique among scientific vol-

umes in focusing on that goal.

Internationally known scholars in the

field of prejudice research contribute

chapters. They combine critical analy-

sis of theories, cutting-edge research

testing those theories in both con-

trolled laboratory situations and real-

world settings, and practical

applications to methods of reducing

intergroup conflict in society.

Berit Olam

(“The Everlasting Covenant”): Studies

in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry Judges

by Tammi J. Schneider, Associate Professor

of Religion (The Liturgical Press, 2000)

Approaching Judges as a unified liter-

ary document, this commentary shows

that when the Israelites adhere to the

covenant established with their deity

they prosper, but when they stray

from it disaster follows. It should be

relevant to anyone interested in the

Hebrew Bible and its theology.

Is the Fetus a Person?

A Comparison of Policies

across the Fifty States

by Jean Reith Schroedel, Associate

Professor of Political Science (Cornell

University Press, 2000)

Without a doubt, the sharpest public

debates over the value of fetal life

have revolved around the conditions,

if any, under which abortion should

be legal. As much a model for future

research as a study of the status of the

fetus, this book offers an extraordi-

nary examination of one of the most

divisive and complex issues of late-

twentieth-century American life.

Entrepreneurial Finance

by Richard L. Smith, Professor of

Management, and Janet Kiholm Smith

(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000)

Entrepreneurial Finance is the first text

to apply current financial economics

research and theory to the study of

entrepreneurship and new venture

finance. Using this approach, entre-

preneurs, venture capitalists, and out-

side investors can rely on financial

economic foundations as a framework

to guide their decision-making.

Currency Crises, Monetary Union And

The Conduct Of Monetary Policy: A

Debate Among Leading Economists

edited by Paul J. Zak, Assistant Professor

of Economics (Edward Elgar Publishers,

Ltd., 1999)

Centering on debate and analysis by

some of the world’s most eminent

economists, including four Nobel

Laureates, this book shows problems

relating to the international monetary

system, economic growth, and mone-

tary policy.

C LAREMONT G RADUATE U NIVERSITY

at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Ferrell was also a featured speaker at

an interdisciplinary conference titled

“On Religious Grounds: Discipline

and Disciplinarity in Early Modern

Britain,” held in January at the

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Darren Filson (SPE) presented

“Conflicts of Interest in the

Hollywood Film Industry: Coming to

America—Tales from the Casting

Couch, Gross and Net, in a Risky

Business” at the Western Economics

Association International Conference

in Vancouver, Canada, in June. The

paper was coauthored with economics

professor Thomas Borcherding.

Paul Gray (IS) used videoconferencing

to keynote BITWORLD 2000, a major

computer conference held in Mexico

City. He presented “Three Chal-

lenges for Information Systems” in

August at the Americas Association

for Information Systems meeting.

He both chaired and keynoted the

meetings held in Long Beach,

California.

Tom Horan (IS) spoke on “Cyberspace

and Communities” at the annual

meeting of the Congress for New

Urbanism in Portland, Oregon, in

June, and on “Social and Community

Impacts of New Media and Telecom-

munications Systems” at Ben-Gurion

University in Israel in May.

Magid Igbaria (IS) was ranked first

among the most productive IS

researchers in a recent study by Susan

Athey and John Plotnicki published in

Communications of the Association for

Information Systems (March 2000).

Joe Maciariello (Drucker) has been

invited to participate in discussions

with the Yale University Divinity

School Board of Advisors. He also

spoke on “Management Systems with

a Heart” to the CEO Roundtable in

Newport Beach, California, in April.

Andrea McAleenan (dean, Executive

and Extended Learning) gave the com-

mencement address at Azusa Pacific

University on May 6.

Stuart Oskamp (SBOS) chaired a

symposium in Minneapolis in June

on “Reducing Ethnic Prejudice and

Discrimination: Societal and

Educational Strategies.” During the

symposium, he presented a paper

titled “Analysis of ‘Promising

Practices’ from the President’s

Initiative on Race.”

Tom Rochon (former dean, SPE) has

accepted a position as executive direc-

tor of the Graduate Record Exam in

Princeton, New Jersey.

Jean Schroedel (SPE) received a

Fletcher Jones Foundation grant for

“Change and Continuity in the Battle

over Abortion: The Re-Emergence of

Medical Abortions.” She lectured at

the National Network of Abortion

Funders Annual Meeting, the

National Abortion Federation Annual

Meeting, the Twenty-Second Annual

Human Rights Festival, at the

University of Georgia, at Georgia

Technology Institute, and at Pomona

College.

In May and June, Michael Scriven

(SBOS) worked with the Ministry of

Education in Bogota, Columbia, on

an evaluation plan for the 51 new

schools currently being built, and on

information technology efforts in

existing and planned schools. He also

spoke on how to evaluate projects in

the U.S. Office of Education’s TRIO

program (Upward Bound, Talent

Search, etc.) in Miami in June.

Gary Segura (SPE) presented “Citizens

by Choice, Voters by Necessity: Pat-

terns in Political Mobilization by

Naturalized Latinos,” with CGU stu-

dent Adrian Pantoja, at the annual

meeting of the Midwest Political

Science Association in Chicago in

April. He also presented “Coming to

Grips: Latinos in the American

Electorate” to the American Political

Science Association’s Ralph Bunche

Institute at the University of Virginia-

Charlottesville in June. Segura was

awarded a Haynes Foundation Faculty

Fellowship, 2000, for “The Blanket

Primary and Latino Influence in

California’s Republican Party.” In

April he was elected to the Executive

Council of the Midwest Political

Science Association.

Craig Volden (SPE) was awarded a

2000 Faculty Fellowship by the John

Randolph Haynes Foundation for

“The Political Economy of American

Federalism and Its Impact on the Los

Angeles Area.” He received a grant

from the European Union Center of

California for research “Exploring

Institutional Change in the European

Union.” Volden gave three major pre-

sentations, including “A Model of

Intergovernmental Political Competi-

tion in American Federalism” at the

annual meetings of the Public Choice

Society in March and “The Political

Economy of Education Spending in

American Federalism” at the annual

meetings of the Midwest Political

Science Association in April.

Allan W. Wicker (SBOS, emeritus) has

accepted a one-year position as

Visiting Lecturer of Psychology at the

American University of Kyrgyzstan in

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The appointment

is sponsored by the Civic Education

Project, headquartered at Yale

University. It operates as a kind of

“academic Peace Corps” in the states

of the former Soviet Union.

Thomas Willett (SPE) received a

$75,000 grant from the Scaife

Foundation to study the global finan-

cial crisis. He also gave four major

presentations: “The Need for a

Political Economy Capability at the

IMF” at the Claremont-Georgetown

Conference on Improving the

Credibility of IMF Programs, held in

Washington, D.C. in January, “Upping

the Ante for Political Economy

Analysis of International Financial

Institutions” at the USC Conference

on International Political Economy,

“The Political Economy of European

Monetary Union” at the annual meet-

ings of the International Studies

Association, both in March, and

“Reforming the International

Financial Architecture” at the annual

meetings of the Western Economic

Association in July.

Paul Zak’s (SPE) recent presentations

have been on “Trust and Growth” at

the Gruter Institute for Law and

Behavioral Research in June, the

World Bank in May, and the UCLA

Conference on International Political

Economy in February. He also spoke

on “Marriage, Genetics, and

Economic Growth” for the Gruter

Institute in June and on “The Future

of the International Monetary System”

for the Claremont-Bologna Monetary

Conference in March.

ESSENTIAL DRUCKER

Peter F. Drucker (Drucker) wrote and coproduced 10 online CD teaching

courses, each 60 to 75 minutes in length. The first five are on “Managing

Yourself and Others.” The second set is on “Business Strategies.” He gave

the keynote address via satellite on April 27 for a national conference of

school superintendents and principals on “The School of the Future,”

organized by Arthur Andersen Consulting. NHK, a major Japanese televi-

sion network, aired a two-hour “Drucker Profile” in June. Drucker’s

Japanese publisher released the first of a three-volume Essential Drucker, a

reader containing excerpts from his books and articles. The first volume,

published in May, is Drucker on the Individual. Drucker on Management will be

published in August. The third volume, Drucker on Society, will be released in

late fall. The Drucker Reader will also be published in the United Kingdom,

Brazil, France, and probably Germany.

CGU and the Peter F. Drucker Founda-

tion for Nonprofit Management hon-

ored Drucker with a reception and

program at the Getty Center in Los

Angeles last November, the month of

his ninetieth birthday. After cutting the

massive brithday cake, Drucker and

his wife, Doris, greeted many of the

several hundred guests attending the

event.

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reading room

A paper by John Angus (Mathematics)

titled

“

Towards Computing Exact

Horizontal Protection Limits for

Satellite Based Navigation Systems”

was published in Navigation Journal of

the Institute of Navigation, Vol. 46,

No. 3. “Sensitivity of GPS and

Ionospheric Monitoring to Category I

Precision Approach Availability”

(coauthored with James DiLellio and

Phuong Tran) was published in the

Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation

2000 National Technical Meeting,

January 2000.

William Crano’s (SBOS) article “The

Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix as

Synopsis and Recapitulation of

Campbell’s Views of the Proper

Conduct of Social Inquiry” was pub-

lished in Research Designs: Inspired by

the Work of Donald Campbell (Sage,

2000). His article titled “Milestones

in the Psychological Analysis of

Social Influence” appeared in Group

Dynamics: Theory, Research, and

Practice, 4.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (Drucker)

recent articles include “Positive

Psychology: An Introduction,” with

M.E.P. Seligman, in American

Psychologist, 55; “Where Are You,

Virgil, When We Need You?” in Psycho-

analysis and Contemporary Thought, 22;

and “The Mythic Potential of

Evolution” in Zygon, 35. He also con-

tributed “Notes on Art Museum

Experiences” in Readings in Discipline-

Based Art Education, R.A. Smith, ed.,

(National Art Education Association).

Stewart Donaldson (SBOS) published

six articles, including: “Longitudinal

Examination of Mentoring Relation-

ships on Organizational Commitment

and Citizenship Behavior” in Journal

of Career Development, 26, with E. A.

Ensher and E. J. Grant-Vallone. Also

“Factors Affecting the Convergence of

Self-Peer Ratings on Contextual and

Task Performance” in Human

Performance, 17, with J. L. Mersman,

and “Mediator and Moderator

Analysis in Program Development,” in

Handbook of Program Development for

Health Behavior Research, S. Sussman,

ed. (Sage, 2000).

Recent publications by Thomas

Horan (IS) include “Digital Places: A

New Approach to Digital Technology

Planning” in Handbook on Public

Information Systems, D. Garson, ed.

(Marcel Dekker, 2000), and “Virtual

Communities and Social Capital,”

in Social Issues for the New Millennium,

by D. Garson (IDEA Dimension of

Information Technology Group

Publishing, 2000), coauthored with

CGU student Anita Blanchard.

Magid Igbaria (IS) coauthored “An

Exploratory Investigation of the

Antecedents and Impact of Internet

Usage: An Individual Perspective,”

with M. Anandarajan and C. Siommers,

in Behaviour and Information Technology,

Vol. 19, No. 1, January 2000.

Igbaria coauthored (with O.

Tetiwat) “Opportunities in Web-based

Teaching: The Future of Education”

in Web-Based Learning and Teaching

Technologies: Opportunities and

Challenges (Idea Group Publishing,

2000).

Joe Maciariello (Drucker) contributed

a chapter titled “Toward a Just and

Caring Society” in Business and

Empowerment: Management Systems with

a Heart for the Poor (Baker Books). He

also wrote a chapter on “Credo and

Credibility: Management Systems at

ServiceMaster” in Faith and Leadership:

How Leaders Live Out Their Faith in

Work and Why It Matters (Jossey-Bass).

Stuart Oskamp (SBOS) wrote “A

Sustainable Future for Humanity?” in

the American Psychologist, May 2000.

Vijay Sathe’s (Drucker) paper,

“Creating Mindset and Behavior

Change” was published in the

May/June issue of Ivey Business

Journal.

Jean Schroedel (SPE) published

“Lesbian and Gay Policy Priorities:

Commonality and Difference,” with

Pamela Fiber, in The Politics of Gay

Rights, edited by C. Rimmerman, K.

Wald, and C. Wilcox (University of

Chicago Press). Her chapter “Boxer

Defeats Fong in California’s Senate

Race,” with Marcia Godwin and Ling

Cao, was published in The Roads to

Congress 1998, edited by Sunil Ahuja

and Robert Dewhirst (Wadsworth

Press). “A Gender Analysis of the

Moral Legitimacy of the Presidency”

appeared in The Moral Authority of

Government, edited by M. Kennedy, R.

Hoxie, and B. Repland (Transaction

Publishers). Fiber, Godwin, and Cao

are all CGU students.

Gary Segura’s paper (SPE) “Race,

Casualties, and Opinion in the

Vietnam War” was published in the

February issue of the Journal of Politics.

Craig Volden’s (SPE) article (with

Clifford J. Carrubba) “Coalitional

Politics and Logrolling in Legislative

Institutions” was published in the

American Journal of Political Science,

Vol. 44, No. 2, April 2000.

Paul Zak (SPE) wrote on “Socio-

Political Instability and the Problem

of Development” in Governing for

Prosperity, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

and Hilton Root, eds. (Yale University

Press, 2000).

faculty

datebook

Stuart Donaldson and Laura Gooler

(SBOS) will present on “Eliminating

Health Disparities through

Employment,” a symposium at the

Annual American Public Health

Association Conference in Boston in

November; and “Using Program

Theory to Increase Evaluation

Capacity,” a symposium at the Annual

American Evaluation Association in

Kona, Hawaii, in November.

Michael Scriven (SBOS) will speak at

workshops at the Evaluators’ Institute

and the American Evaluation

Association meeting in Honolulu in

November.

Gary Segura (SPE) will present

“Agenda Change and the Politics

of Latino Partisan Identification” at

the annual meeting of the Southern

Political Science Association in

Atlanta in November.

Craig Volden (SPE) will give three

presentations at the annual meetings

of the American Political Science

Association in Washington, D.C., in

September. Topics: “Intergovern-

mental Grants: A Model of Political

Competition in a Federal System,”

“Intergovernmental Political

Competition in Federal States,” and

“How Strong Should Our Party Be?

Party Member Preferences over Party

Strength.”

Thomas Willett (SPE) will present

“The Political Economy of the IMF” at

the annual meetings of the American

Political Science Association in

September.

Paul Zak will speak on “Risk,

Homework, and the Supply of Labor

by Women” for the Society of

Evolutionary Analysis in Law in

October.

C LAREMONT G RADUATE U NIVERSITY

AUGUST

28 New Student Registration

29 Classes Begin

SEPTEMBER

5 “Clicks & Mortar: We FOUND the Solution.” Richard

F. Lawson, Jr., of Found.com, speaker. Burkle Family

Building, Room 16, Claremont Graduate University, 5:00

p.m., reception, 5:30 p.m. presentation. For more informa-

tion call 909-607-8137.

12 “What is this Process

anyway?” Marjorie Suchocki

and John B. Cobb, Jr., speak-

ers. Center for Process

Studies Seminar, Haddon

Conference Room, Butler

Bldg., Claremont School of

Theology, 4:10–6:00 p.m. For

more information call 909-

621-5330.

14 “Religion, Politics, and Messianism in Second

Century Judaism.” Professor Gary Gilbert, speaker. Library of

the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, 7:30 p.m. For

more information call 909-621-8066.

19 “The Historical Jesus in Earliest Christianity.” John

Dominic Crossan of De Paul University, speaker. Albrecht

Auditorium, Claremont Graduate University, 7:30 p.m. For

more information call 909-621-8025.

OCTOBER

2–27 Exhibition by the CGU Art Department of new

photographic prints made from the Edward S. Curtis original

glass plate negatives of Native American tribes. Peggy Phelps

Gallery. For more information call 909-621-8071.

5 “Jesus The Son of Man: Issues in Christology,” Bishop

Frederick Borsch, speaker. Library of the Institute for

Antiquity and Christianity, 7:30 p.m. For more information,

call 909-621-8066.

6–7 “Visual Representation and Cultural History: The

Edward S. Curtis Photographs of North American Indians.”

Seminar on historical and cultural issues. Alan Trachtenberg,

Yale University, and Gerald Vizenor of University of

California, Berkeley, keynote speakers. For more information

call 909-621-8612.

11 “New Business Creation.” Vijay Sathe, Claremont

Graduate University, speaker. Executive Forum Series lecture,

Burkle Family Building, Room 16, 6 – 8 p.m. For more infor-

mation call 909-607-8725.

14 “Can eCommerce Deliver?” eSeminar 2000, Peter

Drucker, guest of honor. Garrison Theater. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

For more information contact [email protected].

18 James Barr, speaker; topic to be announced. Center

for Process Studies Seminar, Haddon Conference Room,

Butler Building, Claremont School of Theology, 4:10–6:00

p.m. For more information call 909-621-5330.

26 “The Crucifixion of the Logos: Jewish Binitarianism

and the Invention of Christianity.” Professor Daniel Boyarin,

University of California, Berkeley, speaker, Library of the

Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, 7:30 p.m. For more

information call 909-621-8066.

NOVEMBER

7 Deadline for submission of abstracts for the Fifth

Annual Early Modern Studies Symposium, March 17–18,

2001, titled “The New Science: Emerging Viewpoints in the

Early Modern Era.” For more information, contact Howard

Fitzgerald, 909-621-8308.

10–11 “Poverty.” Medieval Symposium in CGU Board

Room, Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information call 909-621-8066.

11 Executive Forum Series lecture, Burkle Family

Building, Room 16, 6–8 p.m. For more information call

909-607-8725.

14 “A Process Interpretation of St. Paul.” Ulrich

Schmidt, speaker. Center for Process Studies Seminar

Haddon Conference Room, Butler Building, Claremont

School of Theology, 4:10–6:00 p.m. For more information

call 909-621-5330.

28 “Philosophical Investigations into the Reality of God:

Wittgenstein and Whitehead.” Randy Ramal, speaker. Center

for Process Studies Seminar, Haddon Conference Room,

Butler Building, Claremont School of Theology, 4:10–6:00

p.m. For more information call 909-621-5330.

30 “Reinventing the Getty Villa: Plans for Reinstallation

of the Getty Villa.” Dr. Marion True, J. Paul Getty Museum,

speaker. Library of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity,

7:30 p.m. For more information call 909-621-8066.

DECEMBER

6–7 “Social Enterprise That Works.” Conference at

Claremont Graduate University. For more information visit

the website www.cgu.edu/eel or call 909-607-8137.

upcoming

College of Medicine. During her

tenure at the College of Medicine, she

was a recipient of a Faculty Career

Development Award, enabling her to

attend the “Spirituality, Cross-Cultural

Issues and End of Life Care: Curricu-

lar Development” Conference in

Washington, D.C., a Diversity Staff

Development Scholarship Award for

initiating a cross-cultural communica-

tion series at the College of Medicine,

and the Technology Institute Award.

Pamela Hubbard Wiley, Ph.D.,

1993, was named Small Business

Person of the Year by the Small

Business Administration. Dr. Wiley is

the founder and director of the L.A.

Speech and Language Therapy

Center, Inc.

Cristina Rios, Ph.D., 1999, is now

the associate dean and an associate

professor in the Division of Education

at Indiana University, South Bend.

Her academic focus at CGU was on

higher education.

Nicholas C. Polos, Credential,

1954, recently assisted in setting stan-

dards and evaluating student examin-

ations at the Advanced Placement

(AP) US History Reading. As part of

the evaluation process, Dr. Polos read

essays, problem solutions, and portfo-

lios, and listened to audio-taped

responses to questions. He and the

other participants in the session also

had the opportunity to exchange

ideas and suggestions about their own

disciplines and courses, thus fostering

professional development among the

participants.

Charles H. Swift, Ph.D., 1973,

was a recipient of the Seniors of

Distinction award, presented by

Plymouth Village, a retirement com-

munity in Redlands, California, for

service to the community at large and

to seniors. Over a period of 30 years,

Swift has served on local, county, and

state boards, and has been chairman

of several, including the San

Bernardino County Mental Health

Advisory Board, KVCR-FM/TV, and

the Admissions and Allocations

Committee of the United Way of East

Valley.

HUMANITIES

Lee A. Jacobus, Ph.D. English, 1968, a

professor of English at the University

of Connecticut, is currently complet-

ing the seventh edition of his book,

Improving College Reading, published

by Harcourt. Jacobus published the

first edition of the book while he was

a student at Claremont Graduate

University. He is also preparing for

publication the fourth edition of The

Bedford Introduction to Drama, a leading

book in its field.

Thomas J. Osborne, Ph.D. History,

1979, a Professor of History at Santa

Ana College, is the lead author of a

college-level survey text in American

history. The textbook, to be published

by McGraw-Hill, takes an internation-

al/comparative approach to America’s

past. In March of 2000, he was lead

panelist in a presentation entitled

“From Contexts to Texts: Internation-

alizing Our Teaching of College- Level

Survey Courses in American History”

at the meeting of the Organization of

American Historians in St. Louis. In

July, Osborne will participate in the

Organization of American Historians–

New York University conference in

Florence, Italy, to help prepare a

report to the historical profession on

“Internationalizing the Study of

American History.”

John O. Batson, MA English, 1980,

and Jeanie L. Lunsford, MA English,

1980, were married on April 26,

2000, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Laura Behling, Ph.D. English, 1997,

is an assistant professor of English at

Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint

Peter, Minnesota.

Kathryn DeZur, Ph.D. English, 1999,

is an assistant professor of English at

the State University of New York, Delhi.

Michael Winkelman, Ph.D. English,

1999, has accepted a tenure-track

position at Earlham College, where

he will teach renaissance literature.

Winkelman was previously assistant

professor of English at the State

University of New York at Brockport.

INFORMATION SCIENCE

Barbara J. Bashein, PhD Management

of Information Systems, 1995, has been

appointed Vice President for External

Affairs at California State University,

San Marcos. Her responsibilities will

include alumni affairs, civic and

legislative affairs, corporate and foun-

dation relations, development opera-

tions, marketing, media relations,

publications, and special projects.

She is also a member of the business

faculty who specializes in information

systems.

POLITICS

AND ECONOMICS

Robert Trujillo, MA Government, 1975,

was named a member of the “corpo-

rate elite” in the January/February

2000 issue of Hispanic Business. He is

an Executive Vice President at Golden

State Bancorp, Inc.

Robert Catlin, Ph.D. Government,

1977, is provost and vice president of

academic affairs at California State

University, Bakersfield. He was previ-

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ART

Jill D’Agnenica, MFA, 1991, participat-

ed in an international exchange exhi-

bition at the Palazzo dei Consoli in

Gubbio, Italy. D’Agnenica and two

other artists, Matthew Chase-Daniel

and Cynthia Minet, have also been

creating a permanent monumental

sculpture dedicated to peace for the

“Sentiero San Francescano della

Pace,” a route which traces the first

walk St. Francis took on his spiritual

journey when he left his wealthy fami-

ly in Assissi and traveled to Gubbio.

Along this route there will be approxi-

mately 20 sculptures with the themes

of peace, world religions, and spiritu-

ality. The sculpture, made of poured

concrete and covered in ceramic tile

and potshards, will be dedicated this

fall.

DRUCKER

Harold Stadler, MA, Executive

Management, 1982, was appointed sen-

ior vice president and regional man-

ager for the Orange County lending

office of First National Bank.

Louis Barajas, MBA, 1987, has

written La Vida de Oro, about creating

wealth and security for Hispanics. He

is a certified financial planner who

heads an accounting and investment

firm that targets Hispanics.

Jeffrey Smith, MBA, 1987, is vice

president and sales officer for

Scudder Private Investment Counsel

in Los Angeles. He previously worked

for Bank of America’s Private Bank,

where he was responsible for business

development in the San Francisco Bay

Area.

Dick W. Gonzales, Executive MBA,

1996, was named a member of the

“corporate elite” in the January/

February 2000 issue of Hispanic

Business. He is senior vice president

for human resources at Safeway, Inc.

Christina Sultan, MBA, 1995, and

Megan Mandeville, MBA, 1995, are

proud to announce the one-year anni-

versary of their company, Sultan & Co.

Their company provides corporate

and private investigations to clients

worldwide from its offices in Los

Angeles and New York.

EDUCATION

Marie C. Eckess, Ph.D., 1974, recently

published a book titled, Rainbow of

Hope. All proceeds from the sale of

the book will be used to fund educa-

tional scholarships for children whose

mothers died of breast cancer.

Darline Robles, MA, 1977, was

named to the Board of Trustees of

Intermountain Health Care. She has

been superintendent of the Salt Lake

City School District since 1995.

Barbara K. Stanton, MA, 1977, was

appointed to serve as Chief Clerk of

the State of Hawaii’s Ways and Means

Committee. Formerly, she was Deputy

Director of the Hawaii Department of

Business, Economic Development and

Tourism; CEO of High Technology

Development Corporation; Director

of the University of Hawaii’s Mililani

High Tech Park, and Vice President

of Child and Family Service. Barbara

is married to Joseph Stanton (MA,

English, 1973), who is a professor of

arts and humanities at the University

of Hawaii at Manoa.

Francis Nakano, Ph.D., 1980, was

honored for his community service

and promoting of Nikkei cultural

heritage at the ninth annual Southern

California Japanese American Histor-

ical Society Community Heritage

Awards Banquet last October. Dr.

Nakano is deputy superintendent of

operations and support for the Los

Angeles Unified School District.

He was the first Japanese American

regional superintendent in the

LAUSD and the first Asian-American

deputy superintendent in the state.

He was a founder and first president

of the Asian American Educators

Association and the Alliance of Asian

Pacific Administrators.

Yvette Del Prado, Ph.D., 1986, was

named a member of the “corporate

elite” in the January/February 2000

issue of Hispanic Business. Del Prado is

currently a vice president at Tandem

Computers.

Marcia London Albert, Ph.D.,

1987, is currently the director of the

Learning Resource Center at Loyola

Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Previously, she was the academic skills

coordinator and faculty member at

the University of California, Irvine,

C LAREMONT G RADUATE U NIVERSITY

“POT-SHOTS” ARE BRILLIANT

ASHLEIGH E. BRILLIANT (M.A. Education, 1958), co-recipient of this

year’s Distinguished Alumnus Award, is the founder of Brilliant Enterprises,

which publishes, licenses, and distributes Pot-Shots (examples of which are

featured on this page). Brilliant worked as an English teacher and profes-

sor of history before founding Brilliant Enterprises in 1967. He has pub-

lished eleven collections of his “highly meaningful messages,” as Pot-Shots

are subtitled, as well as a book on Southern California and the automobile

in the 1920s.

Brilliant says that Pot-Shots “have always been a deliberate attempt to

reach out to the world,” so he avoids local cultural references when he

writes in this distinct literary form. According to Reader’s Digest, which based

its rankings on submissions to its “Quotable Quotes” feature, Brilliant is the

second most popular source of quotes, trailing only Mark Twain. His work

has appeared in newspapers across the United States since 1975, and can

be found on such items as tote bags, coffee mugs, tee shirts, and postcards.

However, Brilliant aims at more than the funny bone. He wants peo-

ple to think. Pot-Shots such as, “It always helps prove how right you are if

you wave your arms and jump and scream,” and “Be a good neighbor, and

leave me alone,” are humorous, but they reach their readers at another

level. His Pot-Shots are simultaneously simple and complex, and they

describe reality in well-turned phrases. In fact, Brilliant works within a strict

framework when writing his Pot-Shots. None can rhyme, and all must con-

tain no more than 17 words—one for each syllable in a haiku. They are a

distinct literary form. Brilliant’s publisher, Woodbridge Press, nominated

him for a Pulitzer Prize.

Although Brilliant did not receive the

Pulitzer Prize for his work, he can lay claim to

earning the most per word of any author in

the world. After receiving an advance of

$15,000 from Hallmark Cards for a proposed

series of greeting cards featuring Pot-Shots,

Hallmark’s plans changed. Only three of the

cards were produced, so Brilliant calculates his

pay as $468.75 per word, an amount that

soundly beat the previous record of $15 per

word held by Ernest Hemingway.

ART AWARD GOES TO “L.A.-SCAPE” PAINTER

Todd Brainard, Signal Hill artist and graduating student

from CGU’s nationally-ranked art program, was given the

Claremont Graduate University President’s Art Award on May 13.

Established in 1990, the award honors a graduating member of the

CGU Master of Fine Arts Degree program by the acquisition of a

representative piece of the artist’s work. The work is displayed in a

public area on the CGU campus for a year and is then added to the

permanent art collection of the university. After announcing the

award, President Steadman Upham presented Brainard with a

$5,000 check.

Brainard now joins an elite roster of alumni previously select-

ed for the award. For example, Kim Dingle, who in 1990 was the

award’s first recipient, was one of 97 artists selected to participate in

the 2000 Whitney Biennial Exhibition in New York this spring.

Brainard’s paintings use classical and traditional composition

techniques. “Todd’s paintings capture both the reality and mystique

of urban Los Angeles,” says Upham. “I call his landscape paintings

‘L.A.-scapes’ because they so accurately portray the color and shad-

ing of Los Angeles vistas. He is an exceptional artist.”

As for the composition of his artworks, Brainard says that he

tends to “back into them,” first “choosing them intuitively according

to conceptual ideas, the complexity of reality.” His current land-

scapes are composed of condominiums and oil wells, where sunsets

and ocean vistas are balanced by crusted old derricks and a pump-

ing station. Brainard says that “compromise is the order of the day.

Constantly, a quiet détente between disparate elements makes up

the ordinary, intricate machinations of reality.”

“Ocean View,” the title of the piece purchased by CGU in con-

nection with the award, measures 30 inches by 180 inches. It is a

“bird’s-eye” view of Los Angeles created with oil on wood panel.

alumnotes

news and notes

The Claremont Graduate

University Office of Alumni

Relations is currently seeking

nominations for the 2000-2001

Distinguished Alumni and

Distinguished Service Awards. If

you know of an alumnus/a who

you believe deserves recognition

for his/her achievements or

service, please contact Camille

Harper, Director of Alumni

Relations, at 909-607-3962 or

[email protected].

Claremont Graduate University

thanks the following alumni for serv-

ing as CGU’s delegates for presiden-

tial inaugurations at the following

universities. Delegates represent CGU

at inaugural festivities at colleges and

universities around the country.

Trinity University: Olive (Lee)

Burner, San Antonio; Ph.D., Executive

Management, 1982

University of Akron: Craig

Greathouse, Ph.D., Political Science, 1999

Whittier College: Dorothy Heide,

Ph.D., Business Administration, 1977

Occidental College: Arthur William

Opel II, Ph.D., Executive Management,

1998

Antioch University, Los Angeles:

Marcia Selz, Ph.D., Executive Manage-

ment, 1997

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ARKIN

VOLUNTEERS

FOR EXCELLENCE

Dr. Patricia Cooper

Arkin, Ph.D. Education, 1978,

received the Distinguished

Service Award for her work in

both the Claremont and the

international community. Dr.

Arkin taught at Mt. San

Antonio College for 21 years,

and twice taught at universities in the People’s Republic of China. She has

served for seventeen years on the Board of the Community Friends of

International Students, including three years as president, and has volun-

teered for over a decade at Casa Colina Children’s Center. She has volun-

teered at House of Ruth for more than six years. In 1995, Dr. Arkin was

voted House of Ruth’s Volunteer of the Year, and she represented House

of Ruth at the Beijing Women’s Conference.

C LAREMONT G RADUATE U NIVERSITY

SCOTT HAS HIGHEST

LEGISLATIVE SUCCESS RATE

Jack Alan Scott (Ph.D. History, 1972) was selected as co-recipient

of CGU’s 1999-2000 Distinguished Alumnus Award. Scott is currently a

member of the California Assembly, representing the Forty-Fourth District.

Prior to his election in 1996, Scott had a distinguished career in academia.

He served as a member of the faculty of Pepperdine University for 10 years,

where he remains a Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. In 1973,

he became dean of instruction at Orange Coast College, and in 1978, he

was appointed president of Cypress College.

Scott assumed the presidency of Pasadena City College, the third

largest community college in the nation, in 1987. The hallmark of his pres-

idency was the launching of a $100 million master plan to meet the col-

lege’s needs into the twenty-first century.

Scott is also an accomplished writer. His book on John Witherspoon,

one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was published by

the University of Delaware Press in 1982.

During his first term in the California Assembly, Scott enjoyed the

highest legislative success rate among his colleagues, with 25 measures

signed into law. The measures included watershed legislation instituting

tough new gift and loan restrictions on elected officials, legislation pro-

hibiting convicted sex offenders from working in California schools, and a

measure bringing gun manufacturers under state regulation. Scott also

received attention for his legislation streamlining the adoption process, leg-

islation requiring full disclosure by HMOs, and a package of bills increas-

ing teaching standards and making interest on student loans

tax-deductible. He was reelected to a second term in 1998.

Throughout his academic and political careers, Scott has been active

in civic and community affairs. He is currently a member of the Board of

Directors of the Coalition for a Non-Violent City and serves on the Board

of Trustees at Pacific Oaks College. He is a past president of the Association

of California Community College Administrators and a former Chair of the

Accreditation Commission of the Western Association of Schools and

Colleges.

Alumni: What are you doing?

Please use the space below to update us on your personal or

professional life. Add additional pages if needed, and do send

photos, though we apologize that we cannot return them.

Udpdates may be published in future issues of

the Flame or on

the CGU website. Detach this form and send with your mailing

label to: Office of Alumni Relations, Claremont Graduate

University, 165 East Tenth St., Claremont, CA 91711.

Name*

Address

City State Zip

{ check box if new address Country

Home phone Fax

Work phone Email

Year of graduation or last class taken

Program/School { Education { SBOS { Arts & Humanities

{ Religion { Drucker { IS { SPE

Degree(s) earned at CGU, with year(s)

Brief description of personal or professional activities (you may attach

additional sheets)

*(include maiden name if it has changed since leaving CGU)

ously a professor in the Edward J.

Bloustein School of Planning and

Public Policy at Rutgers University.

David E. Bess, Ph.D. Government,

1978, was recently selected as a

Fellow of the American Institute of

Certified Planners (AICP). He was

honored for individual achievement

in the field of urban and rural plan-

ning. Dr. Bess recently retired from

his position as Professor of Urban

and Regional Planning at California

State Polytech-nic University,

Pomona.

Mekki Mtewa, Ph.D. Government,

1979, was elected to Parliament for

Mangochi Central in Malawi during

last year’s June elections. He was also

appointed Deputy Minister for Foreign

Affairs and International Cooperation

in the Cabinet by Dr. Bakili Muluzi,

State President of the Republic of

Malawi.

Ademola Araoye, Ph.D. Politics and

Policy, 1999, has accepted an appoint-

ment with the United Nations. He

now serves as a Political Affairs

Officer at the United Nations Peace

Building Mission in Guinea-Bissau,

West Africa.

SBOS

Thomas Johnson Dougherty, PhD,

Cognitive Psychology, 1993, died

on July 13 at his home in Los Altos,

California. He was 38. He was an

interaction designer and usability

specialist at Talagent, Inc. from

1992 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998

he was a self-employed Cognitive

Psychologist and Computer Human

Interaction consultant, principally

employed by Interval Research

Corporation, Palo Alto, California.

He also was an accomplished musi-

cian and composer.

HARPER IS ALUMNI DIRECTOR

Camille Harper, MA English, 1999, is

the director of alumni and donor relations at

Claremont Graduate University. Raised in

Chico, California, Harper received her AB

degree in English from the University of

California, Davis. She worked in international

programs at Davis' University Extension for four

years before enrolling at Claremont Graduate

University. Harper was an intern in the Office

of Development at CGU for a year before assuming her current responsibil-

ities in August 1999.

As director of alumni and donor relations, Harper is responsible for all

institutional alumni programs, including management of the President’s

Alumni Circle and other institutional alumni groups. In the coming

months, she will implement an alumni relations program to strengthen the

ties between Claremont Graduate University and its alumni.

Claremont Graduate University

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Claremont, CA 91711

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September 8, 2000

Opening of School Convocation

3:30 p.m. – Garrison Theater, corner of Tenth Street and Dartmouth Ave., Claremont

Reception to follow in DesCombes Quadrangle

September/October (date T.B.A.)

Paramount Pictures Movie Premiere Night

Fundraiser to benefit the Anniversary Fellowship Fund

For more information, contact Camille Harper at 909.607.3962 or [email protected]

October 6-7, 2000

Thornton S. Bradshaw Seminar in the Humanities

“Visual Representation and Cultural History”

The Edward S. Curtis Photographs of North American Indians

Reservation is required

909.621.8612 or www.cgu.edu/hum

in conjunction with

October 2-27, 2000

Exhibition of Curtis Photographs from the collection of the Capital Group Foundation

Peggy Phelps Gallery

521 East Tenth Street, Claremont 909.621.8071

and

August 29–October 20, 2000

Edward S. Curtis Photographs of North American Indians: Representation or History?

Exhibition portfolio holdings of the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges

1030 Columbia Avenue, Claremont 909.621.8136

October 18, 2000

Alumni Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony

Faculty House, 703 N. College Way, Claremont

For more information, contact Camille Harper at 909.607.3962 or [email protected]

1925–2000

COME CELEBRATE CGU’S 75

ANNIVERSARY!

alumni

events

Claremont Graduate

University is hosting

a year-long series of

special events to

celebrate 75 years of

academic excellence.

For calendar updates

and future events,

please visit our website

at www.cgu.edu.

Fall highlights – Mark your calendar.